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Fucking Tired of AI

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Re: Fucking Tired of AI

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Post by meiraleal »

supersparrow wrote: post #32

We have to accept it until something else comes along and changes it again. For a lot of us, the internet has been ruined for a _lot_ longer than the rise of LLMs. For me, it was ruined when it became mainstream (Facebook etc.) and commercialised to the max. I’m sure someone else will make another post just like the OPs in a few years wishing for days gone by before .

> I’m sure someone else will make another post just like the OPs in a few years wishing for days gone by before .

"I miss the early days of LLMs" is a certain post in the future.

Re: Fucking Tired of AI

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Post by npteljes »

akaTrickster wrote: post #8
giogio wrote: post #7

Spend less time on social media, and the internet in general

But I /love/ the Internet, I've been here since the very beginning. It's like seeing your home town get run down and turned into a dumpster.

I think you and OP are both right.

You are right because it does feel like shit. I'm not experiencing it with AI, but I did experience it several times with technology already. Not a good feeling!

And OP is right because that's what you can actually do - moving on. The thing you like, in the form you liked it, is already gone forever. What you can do on a human level is to take this experience, grieve for what has been lost to you, and later find a way to move on. What I can say is that I always something that ignites that spark in me, no matter how many times I have felt that I have lost it.

Re: Fucking Tired of AI

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Post by tivert »

meiraleal wrote: post #50
tivert wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> being bombarded with tons of AI-written books, pornography, music, video, audio, images > I don't come across any of these unless I am very actively looking for them. AI generated "hero" images are pretty common on blogs and other blog-like sites. I run into them all the time by just clicking links on HN. "AI" generated garbage has made me both more blind to them and more annoyed by the whole concept of a "hero" i…

I'm starting to see a pattern around people that freak out about AI generated hero images. They aren't great most of the times but going out of your way to discuss the use of the image in a post (here in HN for example) is high-level pedantry. The (go to) alternative for the authors would be a post without images which is by no means any better.

> They aren't great most of the times but going out of your way to discuss the use of the image in a post (here in HN for example) is high-level pedantry.

They're garbage.

> The (go to) alternative for the authors would be a post without images which is by no means any better.

It would be far, far better for authors to post without images.

I mean, FFS, if you've got something good and relevant, sure use a "hero" image, but if you're going to use dreck, please don't bother.

Re: Fucking Tired of AI

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

Jensson wrote: post #48
_nalply wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps because they were lucky? What they needed was available for millions of years. Note the survivorship bias there. I am sure you already know it, so please excuse me pointing out this obvious thing.

Species go extinct all the time, there are always very unadaptable species around and most of them go extinct pretty soon after they become unadaptable because environments change all the time in the grander scale of things.

Right, fitness can only be understood in the context an organism is in at the time. There is no long term plan.

An adaptable organism might stay around for longer - or it might be outcompeted in the short term by less adaptable organisms.

Re: Fucking Tired of AI

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Post by akaTrickster »

1jreuben1 wrote: post #33

From a technical perspective, I do not enjoy RAG prompt engineering. It is so brittle and non-formal, and the barriers of entry are extremely low. There is a complete trifercation of ML: 1. ML Engineers: the high priests, with access to 10K GPU hours, designing novel Transformer architectures using Tensorflow / PyTorch / JAX. 2. Data Scientists: conducting SFT on pre-trained models via the HuggingFace APIs + MLOps &…

I concur, after LeCun gave the warning to PhD students to steer clear of LLMs I heeded it and can say my career is better as a result: why compete/join a hype cycle if you can help solve foundational problems.

Re: Fucking Tired of AI

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Post by akaTrickster »

subsection1h wrote: post #31
akaTrickster wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But I /love/ the Internet, I've been here since the very beginning. It's like seeing your home town get run down and turned into a dumpster.

> But I love the Internet, I've been here since the very beginning. You've been using the Internet since the 1970s?

This was funny; since a /long/ time ago. Didn't get access to that sweet 3-university intranet hahahaha

Re: Fucking Tired of AI

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Post by akaTrickster »

dannyobrien wrote: post #17

I don't find this at all, and I just searched for images of Ben Franklin and MLK, and they seemed fine. I spent a lot of today messing around connecting Anthropic's MCP system to Emacs and while the LLM's tendency to overwrite my code with its own was annoying, it was fascinating to play with it. I spent a lot of the early days of the Internet arguing with people who thought it was ruining everything, with terrible a…

I like this take. Wrote the post in a bit of a state of rage hahaha
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